Please mark this date on your calendar:Sunday May 6 from 1-5pmWhere: Wakefield-LaPeche Community Centre

Admission is free; everyone is welcome

Background:

On March 31, Wakefield Ensemble cosponsored a workshop on the subject of The Creative Economy hosted by Theatre Wakefield. The 35 people at the meeting spent several hours looking at ways of getting to a formal community development plan for Wakefield.

This meeting is a continuation of that conversation with a wider audience.

Tentative program:

1. Update on Wakefield Ensemble. Mission, activities to date, etc.

2. Report(s) from Theatre Wakefield on the March 31 Creative Economy Workshop

3. An introduction to community development planning Examples of economic development around theatres The Business Vitality Index*4. Some visions for inspiration:

Louis Rompré on the PPU Ken Bouchard on Wakefield as Gateway to Gatineau Park Cascades Club on their renovation grant The Wakefield Community Centre vision

5. A Café Conversation

This will be conducted using the World Café approach to promote dialogue and participation. This meeting will produce a report on shared community visions which will be the basis for the next step in the BVI process.

Community volunteer groups are also being invited to set up information tables.Watch this space; more to come!